Jymi Bond
Counselor
MA
LPCC
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Kiana Peoples earned a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from Alabama State University. Upon graduation, she earned a bachelor's level license (LBSW) while working as a child/adult protective social worker for the Department of Human Resources in Blount County, Alabama. She continued to serve as a senior level social worker for CPS while earning her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Alabama. She served in the area of child protective services for more than 15 years. Upon graduating from The University of Alabama, Peoples accepted a position as a school-based therapist with South Arkansas Regional Health Center in El Dorado, Arkansas. During her tenure there she received her license as a master level social worker (LMSW).
Peoples social work experience includes being a coordinator for a grant funded program known as S.C.O.R.E. that provides therapeutic services to juvenile felons and their families through the state of Georgia's Juvenile Court System and Advantage Behavioral Health Systems. Before accepting the position of BSW field director of education/assistant professor at CMU, Peoples was an assistant professor of social work/field director with Southern Arkansas University.
Further service to social work academia includes past teaching appointments, local committee service, state and national board appointments with NASW and ASWB/CSWE, and social work publications. Her research interest involves examining the disconnect between child welfare systems and successful kindship/fictive kin connections among children of color and juvenile recidivism.
Peoples social work experience includes being a coordinator for a grant funded program known as S.C.O.R.E. that provides therapeutic services to juvenile felons and their families through the state of Georgia's Juvenile Court System and Advantage Behavioral Health Systems. Before accepting the position of BSW field director of education/assistant professor at CMU, Peoples was an assistant professor of social work/field director with Southern Arkansas University.
Further service to social work academia includes past teaching appointments, local committee service, state and national board appointments with NASW and ASWB/CSWE, and social work publications. Her research interest involves examining the disconnect between child welfare systems and successful kindship/fictive kin connections among children of color and juvenile recidivism.